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MR. MACNAMARA seeks, in a small compass, to indicate the origin of the component parts of the British people, and to account for the differences of local moral character by proportionate inheritance from the original races, all of which are assumed to have their mental and moral peculiarities as fixed as their physical characters. He believes that the Iberians, as he prefers to call the Mediterranean or Afro-European race, formed the primary stock from which the existing inhabitants of Great Britain and the West of Europe are derived; and that they are the modified descendants of Palæolithic man. The tall fair Aryans originated in Western Asia.
Origin and Character of the British People.
By Nottidge Charles Macnamara. Pp. 242; 33 figures. (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1900.)
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Origin and Character of the British People . Nature 62, 172 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/062172a0
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